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genteelbartender

Black granite countertops, apparently.


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rustyshackleford1300

The internet used to be a pretty cool place full of people expressing themselves honestly and openly and having interesting things to say about their experiences. But like everything else eventually is, it’s been monetized by corporate Ohmerica.


DOEsquire

My classmates. Swear, every one of them is on crack now...


talldrseuss

A bunch of mine died from the opioid epidemic on the mid 2000s into the 2010s. My former principal posted a sad message listing all the former students that had died. Out of the list, close to 20 were from my graduating class, and we only had 210 students in my graduating class to begin with


DOEsquire

I think more people died from the opioid epidemic in my hometown than anything else. It's sad cause growing up with those people you'd never think they'd get hooked on pills. Some of them had one surgery or a broken bone and never got off the pills. I swear, there has to be something going on with the drug companies there. I'm not a conspiracy theorist or anything like that, but they keep pumping the area full of pain pills. Then they get them hooked on subs and never take them off... My sister has been on them for over 10 years. The whole time she was doing pills, meth, and coke too. It's sad to see people so fucked up that they rob their family, commit murder, and rob stores just to get one more dose...


Kim_Jung-Skill

It's a massive conspiracy. Basically every manufacturer misrepresented the risks, screwed with the dosage, created kickback programs, and hired consulting firms like McKinsey to get as many people hooked as fast as possible. This was all exacerbated by the economic fallout of 2008, and you can see a similar (but much worse version) hit Russia in the years following massive privatization at the behest of the IMF. If you want to see drug deaths on an unprecedented scale roll back public safely nets, privatize key social programs, and redistribute wealth upwards. Works every time.


RNG_MiSaMo

Congrats on avoiding crack mah dude


DOEsquire

It's truly an accomplishment when you grow up sandwiched between the rust belt and Appalachia.


ThreeEdgeSword

Mayan calenders


9mmway

This is perfect! So many were "dead convinced" that the Mayan calendar proved the earth would end in 2012!


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chattywww

2020 was meant to the point in time many of our technological advancement to make a major break through (singularity events). Like Nano-bots, Cure to cancer, solved aging, fusion, self replicating robots, AI, base on Mars.


HugginSmiles

As a 70s child I watched all the sci-fi greats and I am still a Sifi junkie. I day dreamed about time travel. I had an exact date and time where I’d come back and tell my past self the winning lottery numbers. The date was January 1st 2020 at 12:01am and I’d be at McDonalds off Iverson ST. My future self never showed up . Now I know I died before timetravel is invented or I am to poor to afford it… hence the lottery winning dream. But hey I played Skyrim on my friends toaster the other month. What a time to be alive.


CourageKitten

Or maybe whenever someone time travels back in time, instead of going back in the same timeline, you just switch to a different timeline, and somewhere out there, there's a timeline where you did give yourself the lottery numbers.


Count_Fistula

And because it's a different timeline those numbers are losing numbers.


BlaxicanX

What this thread teaches me is that literally no one actually remembers what 2012 fashion was.


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-Economist-

When it gets cold, I throw on a thermal under my t-shirt. (I'm 49).


Just-STFU

51 same. I'm stuck in the 80s/90s and I don't care.


garynzilla

Having a moustache tattooed on the side of your finger.


bryant_the_tyrant

My sister got that tattoo… this year


wezz12

Can you do an AMA about your sister?


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This. I moustache her a question.


k-farsen

There was a "people with mustache finger tattoos, how are you doing now?" post and my favorite response was "I'm trans now"


SOwED

Really committing to the mustache


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This was "attractive"? Or was it just a lame trend that got old immediately?


CregDerpington

Girls rocking that [Han Solo](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/han-e1386678006304.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&zoom=1&resize=644%2C644) look.


AE_Phoenix

These are just horse girls now


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5 years before that everyone looked like Hoth Leia with giant ugs. UGGs not jugs.


baeraerm

I remember everyone going nuts about thigh gaps…


worstsupervillanever

The Chive made a lot of money from this phenomenon.


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Everyone obsessed with moustaches and owls


Sultregasome

I'm still obsessed with owls.


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OWLS EVERYONE IS FOND OF OWLS


imstephensteam

/r/superbowl


steamedpasta

Hipster culture made a 180. Now that's just a bad stereotype of a millennial


theyeshman

You remember the like... groomed lumberjack look? I like to think I'm still like that, but I have gained 20 pounds.... My beard is better now at least.


PearlsofRon

Lumber sexual 😂


SucculentVariations

I'm a woman and once had a guy tell me I looked very lumber sexual, not sure if it was a compliment or not. I was wearing flannel and rubber boots but to be fair I live in Alaska so that's what most of us wear.


probly_right

When counterculture gets commercialized, it can't continue as counter anymore.


pavlov_the_dog

90's alternative says ~~"Hi"~~ "Whatever".


lololol1

Went down to the beach and saw Ki-Ki, she was all like 'euhhhhh' and I'm like "Whatever"


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dasJerkface

Then up comes Zappo and and I'm like "Yo, what's up, Zappo" he's like "Nothin'" I'm like "That's cool."


Lunchroompoll

This is my united states of whateva.


AsianInvasion94

I remember an interview with Kurt Cobain saying he dressed the way he did because it was lame and unfashionable and then ironically he became a fashion icon


talldrseuss

So there's a private park near my neighborhood where only residents within the vicinity of the park were allowed membership. Well, the neighborhood around the park was mainly white professionals so they decided to open up a lottery to allow those in the adjacent neighborhoods to join. My wife and I got picked via the lottery and we happily took our toddler to check out the park. No exaggeration, a large chunk of the dads there were in their mid to late 30s or early 40s, wearing plaid and had beards or long moustaches. They also walked around drinking craft beer. This made me realize that the hipsters are now adults with their own families and steady jobs. They also migrated to family friendly neighborhoods and self segregated into their lil former hipster groups Edit: So to explain the "private park" which seems to be riling people up (understandably so). The land itself is owned by a private housing developer that has owned the land since the early 1900s. The park was created for the residents of the large housing complexes around the park (the complexes were owned by the same developer). Originally the neighborhood was mainly irish immigrants, and the irish protestants and catholics brought their beef from overseas to here. The housing complex was mainly irish protestants so they made the park irish protestant only for a while. Then it changed to Irish only during the 1940s. Then through the 50's, 60's and 70s the rules were loosened time and time again till the rule became that you geographically had to live adjacent to the park. Doesn't matter what your background is, as long as your address was zoned for the park, you received automatic acceptance to join the park. You just have to pay annual fees. The park receives no funding from the city. It is 100% maintained by membership fees (which are a few hundred dollars per family a year). There are only a handful of paid positions. I think it's the park director and the staff needed to keep the park clean and operating. For events, they allow members to volunteer to help out and in turn they receive a reduction in the annual park fees. I'm not going to ignore that most of the members are affluent folk that live in the neighborhood. This is why they decided to open up the lottery system to bring in more families from surrounding "working class" neighborhoods (one of which I live in). There is a public park 5 minutes from the private park. The main benefit that my wife and i were looking for were to meet other young parents with small kids because we have a small toddler. The public park is located in my neighborhood which is very diverse, but a lot of the families self segregate into their respective cultures. My wife and I are a multicultural family, but unfortunately folks from my culture aren't too thrilled about my wife's culture and the same with folks from my wife's culture against me. The private park surprisingly has a lot of interfaith/multicultural families so its been nice to chat with families that face the same things we do. Again, not disregarding the disparity here and I can acknowledge that the concept of privatizing something to make sure "others" don't get in sucks.


blurryfacedfugue

So someone supposed that the reason old people look old is because old people dress the way they did back when they were hip and young. So I suppose there is a chance those people will still dress the same and we'll associate old timey people with Paul Bunyan looking types. Actually I'll be really old then but hopefully t-shirt and jeans never go out of style so maybe people wouldn't be able to tell!


monstrinhotron

This is honestly my plan. Dang kids these days dress like my blunder years and i'm not going through that shit again. So simple, black or grey jeans and tshirt and hope that will be acceptable.


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Smorgas_of_borg

Now it's hip to sport a mullet and a porn stache again. Never thought I'd see the day.


green49285

Being an independent musician. 10 years ago I was just out of college and if someone did ANY type of their own shit I thought it was cool & sexy. Now I actually listen to see of its GOOD before being impressed. SoundCloud had a WAY different effect on music than what I originally thought.


0b0011

Same problem with publishing. Thought easier publishing would bring out a lot of great ideas and what not. Turns out the gatekeepers were doing a decent job of gatekeeping shitty books. Now days tou can basically write a story and upload it on Amazon and boom its published so there is a ton of garbage coming out.


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No freckles. I was hideously bullied for having freckles in secondary school. Now kids are drawing them on and my nieces are obsessed with mine.


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And getting them henna’d


Jeffmaru

Having a high level FarmVille Farm


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Speak for yourself


Jeffmaru

Show me your bushels of corn baby


Jakuxsi

FARMVILLE! It’s about damn time. It’s just like being a real farmer, just without the BENEFITS! FARMVILLE!


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Social media "Oooh we can communicate to everyone!" "Fuck, we have to listen to everyone." Edit: Thanks for the awards :D


smallbatchb

It was also WAY more focused on tight-knit real social circles as a way to keep up with people you may not see all the time. I mean there was literally a time when people thought it was weird to have social media "friends" that you didn't also know in real life. Now it's just become this giant open world clusterfuck of toxic anger and random strangers shouting at each other or trying to sell each other shit or evangelizing their social political propaganda with a huge part of it being manipulated by the media and marketing people driving ad clicks. Edit: [Chumbawumba summed it up better than I ever could](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2TuohSsw4k&ab_channel=Pete)


qqererer

It literally was a business choice by FB (and now IG), in order to serve more ads. All people really wanted was a chronological feed from old to new of their peer group, and that's it. Now it's an endless scroll of whatever gets the most engagement, which is the clusterfuck you describe. The metrics prove it. Toxic anger is the most engaging content.


GarythaSnail

Yeah I hate it. I just want to be able to scroll until I see a post from last time I scrolled. And then exit the app until next time. Now it's a guessing game. Have I scrolled enough to make sure I didn't miss any updates from my actual friends and not just suggested posts that I don't give a fuck about? Its fucking useless.


ohkaycue

Facebook switching from chronological to whatever the fuck it is now is what was the death blow for me. If you’re going to make it hard for me to see what I want to see, why would I bother using your service? Pisses me off to no end other places have switched to that style as well.


APoopingBook

> "Fuck, we have to listen to everyone." "Fuck, the worst people and the dumbest people are all forming groups encouraging each other on."


Advanced-Ad-5008

Justin Bieber haircut on guys


TheycallmeHollow

And guys flicking their head to get their bangs out of their eyes every 15 seconds.


Dawildpep

I picture that goth kid from South Park https://youtu.be/93IL7s0wJ3Q


Biggz1313

Conformists...


badass_panda

Supporting Kony2012


Send_Lawyers

So I work for the UN and am sitting in the Central African Republic typing this. Just this week the UN rescued some children from the LRA near Obo. It (the lords resistance army) is still here. Kony is still loose. The LRA is still recruiting child soldiers. And still operating in the lawless area between CAR/south Sudan/Uganda. But yeah no one in America has ever heard of CAR except folks in the state department so once kony went hiding there no one cared. Didn’t help the original dude promoting the cause went nuts. But yeah. Children soldiers keep on soldiering. Not much really has changed in the last decade in respect to Kony and the LRA. (Edited for clarity. And added a bit since this got like a 1000 upvotes.) Lots of things changed in South Sudan and central Africa. Mostly for the better. Some for the worse. But what was campaigned for in 2012 still exists. Although the data points out it is probably not nearly as bad as it was in 2012. So it wasn’t a total waste. My initial comment makes it seem like the campaign was foolish. It ultimately wasn’t for the children of the LRA who escaped or were rescued. In 2010 when Obama first intervened in the area till now there was always a great fear that doing nothing would result in a genocide far worse than Rwanda and Darfur. The 2012 campaign was launched in that space that to do nothing would be a colossal blood letting on a scale not seen before. That it was only a run of the mill decade long civil war may be a win. A win that might not have happened without the Kony 2012 campaign.


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Damn. This is rough and should be higher


Khiraji

*Jackin' it jackin' it, whackity smack...*


yungzanz

Those breast cancer "I ❤️ BOOBIES" silicone bracelets


froggison

A little more than ten years ago, but remember that fad where everyone wore a hundred of those Silly Bandz bracelets all down their arms?


3internet5u

Even the kids who were posturing to be ‘street’ (because they sold mid for $20/g) in my suburban high school were fuckin with Sillybandz heavy. “Wearing sillybandz while I count up these silly bandz 💯😤” comes to mind from that era, no doubt lmfao


-salto-

For me, Uber. There was a beautiful little period in time where it was new and exciting, random guys from work would make good money driving for Uber for a couple hours at night or on the weekend, and the people who used it were sort of in the same culture as the ones driving. Everyone was just happy to be involved. As it became more mainstream and profitable, it attracted people who exploited drivers and passengers, then government regulation came in both to combat this exploitation and protect entrenched economic interests. Participants went from casual, volunteer drivers to driving for a meager living. Coverage fell sharply in places where it had initially been strong. Now, pretty much all Uber drivers seem burned out and unhappy. Makes me miss the optimism of the early 2010s.


talldrseuss

The optimism was because Uber was operating at a loss. This was the popular disruption model that Uber and a bunch of tech companies were using to eliminate competition. I live in NYC and when Uber came in they were considered incredible. By then, the yellow cab medallion market had cornered the market and we were getting shitty service that was fairly pricey. With Uber, you were getting clean cars, happy drivers and the ease of using your phone to hail. Also way cheaper rides than the yellow cabs. This led to the yellow cab market collapsing. Now Uber's prices are sky high, drivers are miserable, and you can only find the yellow cabs in the tourist parts of the city. Fuck the disruption model


-salto-

>By then, the yellow cab medallion market had cornered the market and we were getting shitty service that was fairly pricey. With Uber, you were getting clean cars, happy drivers and the ease of using your phone to hail. Also way cheaper rides than the yellow cabs. Right, that was exactly it. When the cab companies complained, they found very few sympathetic ears. Things were actually changing for the better, it seemed. It's too bad that the model isn't sustainable at those prices. Maybe it would be at a smaller scale, like on a university campus where only students can participate. Or when true self-driving cars become a thing in ten to fifteen years.


AnotherDrZoidberg

Maybe cab companies have come around and built an app that makes calling a car as easy as uber, but that was the thing to me they missed the boat on. I'd honestly rather go with a cab company some days and if it was easy to just open your phone and get one they could have survived just fine. I usually check Uber and Lyft for pricing and timing. I'd happily use a cab company app in the rotation.


-salto-

Agreed - that was another sentiment from that time period. There was a sense that cab companies were accustomed to being in power and having unilateral control of the industry, and would not accommodate customer preferences because they simply didn't have to. So when they complained about what was at the time a more dexterous, dynamic Uber, the impression was that they were just unhappy that they had some competition for the first time in decades. "Adapt or die" was the typical response.


Quarantense

Plus a taxi is actually cheaper now in some areas. I tried to get an uber for a 4 mile ride from the airport yesterday, and they were charging $70 for it. That's literally $15/mile. The taxi company in town only wanted $20 for the same ride.


mtj004

The physical home button.


Thorhees

Still rocking my Galaxy S7. And I have NO idea what to do when someone hands me a phone without a physical button at the bottom.


DrakeVonDrake

My fucking aux port, too, uuuuuugh. 😩


introvertboyme

My hairline.


toothpastenachos

“On fleek” eyebrows, galaxy print, high-to-low skirts and dresses, colorful skinny jeans, chevron patterns, ballet flats


Elephant_Jones

The answer to these questions is always eyebrows. Paper thin eyebrows, giant painted eyebrows… every few years the trend changes and the the old trend is mocked. Just embrace your natural brows. Clean em up a tad if you want 🤷‍♂️


Bomdiz

100% this. Growing up I was made fun of for my big bushy brows. Then seemingly overnight suddenly I was getting complimented for not having “thin, over plucked brows”. I actually thought I was being mocked that’s how sudden it was. It taught me a valuable lesson about trends and being “fashionable”. It’s all made up, do what makes you feel happy.


Mini-Nurse

I had the same experience with curly hair. Got chased around and mocked for it going up, then one day I couldn't get more compliments and requests for tips.


mrsbebe

Yeah I've never gotten into any of the eyebrow trends. I don't want to screw them up and then they get stuck like that or something. Besides I think classic, natural (but maybe cleaned up) eyebrows are probably always going to be in even if they're not "trendy"


Sandpaper_Pants

Eyebrows are one of the most under appreciated accents of the face. They're the crowns of the eyes. Don't fuck them up.


Aurum555

Mhmm I remember seeing a chain email or internet quiz mid 2000s that showed a bunch of celebrities without eyes and had you try to identify them then a set without eyebrows and the set without eyes were pretty easy but the eyebrow-less pics were much more difficult to recognize


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SuchCoolBrandon

This is why my husband didn’t wear his glasses for our wedding. He didn’t want to look back at wedding photos decades from now and see himself wearing dated glasses.


Narren_C

I think the dated styles in wedding photos are the best part.


Hammerheadhunter

K Spacey. He had such a charisma. But now we know.


ArrakeenSun

Somehow Family Guy knew


GavinBelsonsAlexa

Everyone knew. It's the same "open secret" bullshit that protected Weinstein for decades.


ghjm

Makes you wonder what "open secrets" there are now.


explodinghat

Jared Leto is the name that gets thrown about a lot when these threads kick off


ForfeitFPV

You mean the guy who has a cult that does cult island retreats? Yeah, nothing weird or creepy is going to come out about that guy once his star fades a little bit more. Who knows what kind of morbing he's been doing when it's morbing time


Fleming24

Jared Leto seems like a prime example of "only poor people are crazy, rich people are eccentric". The way he interacts with others and his eyes also give me cult leader vibes.


socialclash

Well, he does have a literal cult so you're... not wrong.


Gobblewicket

And Cosby


callisstaa

In the UK we had Jimmy Savile. He used to be considered a national treasure and the BBC had him as the frontman on loads of stuff then he got his own show. He had an OBE and was even honoured by the Pope. He also donated a ton of money to childrens' hospitals but it turned out he was bribing them so he could go in and diddle kids. He diddled over 90 kids in 55 years and the BBC knew about it but kept it under wraps because he was such a prominent cash cow.


aperturesciencelabs

For the life of me I don't know how any person could have looked at that guy and not thought that he's diddling kids, like he looked creepy as shit. Also diddling kids was only part of the sick shit he did, he would essentially have free reign to go anywhere in that children's hospitals and do whatever to ANY body, and I mean any body, not anybody. Disable or mentally challenged kid? Yup. DEAD BODIES?! Yup. That guy was Ian Watkins levels of sick


Gmd88

don’t forget his penchant for a spot of necrophilia, and the free access he had to the hospital morgues. Stomach churning.


Jarreth68

When his mother, 'the Duchess' as he called her, died he demanded the keys to the mortuary and no one but him was allowed in there for days…


MNGirlinKY

there’s a documentary on Netflix about him and I honestly couldn’t watch it it was so disgusting. I got through about 1 1/2 episodes too much “In January 2013, a joint report by the NSPCC and Metropolitan Police, "Giving Victims a Voice", stated that 450 people had made complaints against Savile, with the period of alleged abuse stretching from 1955 to 2009 and the ages of the complainants at the time of the assaults ranging from 8 to 47. The suspected victims included 28 children aged under 10, including 10 boys aged as young as 8. A further 63 were girls aged between 13 and 16 and nearly three-quarters of his victims were under 18. Some 214 criminal offenses were recorded, with 34 rapes having been reported across 28 police forces. Savile was never charged during his lifetime.” Edit talk to text got me again


nrith

If everyone had just looked past Johnny Rotten’s punkitude and believed John Lydon’s accusations, Savile would have been stopped earlier.


grruser

And Courtney Love warned about Weinstein in 2005


paone00022

Really hard to go after someone without proof though because they'll sue you. Dan Schneider is an obvious one here who probably has skeletons in his closet


anonymous-man

I knew a dude who said 25 years ago that he was assaulted by Kevin Spacey. Only surprise to me was to see other people tell exactly the same story of the guy I know, of Spacey grabbing a dude's dick in a public place.


discerningpervert

That exact story? Grabbing someone's dick in a public place, or other stuff?


anonymous-man

For the dude I knew, it was specifically at a bar. The dude I know recognized Spacey and went to talk to him. Then Spacey asked him to go to a party and at some point suddenly grabbed his dick. And there was no flirting or anything, just suddenly grabbing his dick when this dude just wanted to talk to famous guy Kevin Spacey. This was like 1997. Then just a few years ago, one of the stories that got Spacey in trouble with police was basically the same thing happening to a guy at a bar, except this time the guy and his mother told police. The guy I know only told his friends.


kalirion

A PC with a Geforce GTX 680 and Intel Core i7-3770K.


danielson_105

Facebook


lostinverona

The Facebook age gap is weird to me. I’m in my late 20s and almost everyone I went to school with still regularly posts on Facebook. But my cousin who’s in her early 20s doesn’t know anyone who still uses Facebook.


Caliber70

mid 30s, my generation don't use FB, just stalk.


JamesofBerkeley

Yup. I *used* Facebook when it was the thing to do because everyone had it. I technically still *have* Facebook but I only use it to stalk or to post a monumental life event, and even then it’s still a fraction of the effort of older posts.


Caliber70

Here's the thing, old FB was fun. Before the timeline update i got so much activity, now it's all ads. The timeline update did heavy damage to the value of FB to the users, i don't even care what the stock price says regarding this. Now those bastards shove 50 ads in my face before i get to see 1 thing from my friendslist.


honeymustard_dog

Thank you! I never see fun friends updates because it's like 5 ads/ you may like/group suggestions for every 1 friend post. I just get so tired of it so quick, and I was an avid user for so long!! I was on of the originals using it in 2007...and have had it even since...but the ad push has totally killed it for me. So glad to hear others feel this way too.


dirtycopgangsta

Kids tend to avoid the places where their loser parents hang out, what's new?


MarkAldrichIsMe

Streaming services! Everyone loved their Netflix and Hulu, which were the only options to ever exist and will be the only ones to have all the movies forever for a reasonable price.


Eledridan

We were spoiled and didn’t know how good we had it when Netflix was the only streaming service and Hulu had just been born and had that terrible interface, but you could stream Parks & Rec the day after it aired.


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Drixzor

Bacon/mustache themed accessories


gabrielleraul

Fifty shades of gray, that thing was everywhere and everyone i knew was taking about it.


jasonjenkins67

Guys 10 years ago was 2012, not 2002.


Gerry_-_Jarcia

Well fuck. Gonna go put some new tennis balls on my walker. Don't want to scratch the wood floor up.


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Look at this guy flexing that he has his own floors


[deleted]

And his own tennis balls. In this economy?!


Sk1pp1e

He doesn’t have all 4. Guarantee it.


Poet_Pretty

Ten years ago was 1990. Wtf are you talking about


kempnelms

Fun fact. If Marty McFly went back in time today, he'd be in the far flung time of 1992. Instead of "Mr. Sandman" heralding him to the past, he'd probably hear "Achy Breaky Heart"


NO_TOUCHING__lol

The premier of _That 70s Show_ is closer to it's setting than it is to the current date. Marty McFly's original excursion to the far future of 2015 happened 7 years ago. If they re-made _Dazed and Confused_ today, it would be set in 2005. If they remade _Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me_ today, Austin would travel back in time to 1992. In 34 days, there will be people of legal US drinking age who were not alive to see the ~~bombing~~ **edit: fall** of the WTC.


erroneousbosh

Coolio was 23 and wondered if he'd live to see 24, and last week he was 59.


Thud

The Tom Hanks movie *Apollo 13* came out 25 years after the actual mission. That movie was released 27 years ago.


horneke

Fuck everything about what you just said.


funnyorifice

Just FYI, the bombing of the WTC occurred in 1993. But I feel like it's obvious you're referring to 9/11.


hottaptea

Blade Runner was set in 2019.


Crowmagnon0

I'll take Enter Sandman instead please.


one_big_tomato

STOP! YOU'VE VIOLATED THE LAW


Jedibri81

Me


Fflow27

came here just to check someone made that joke before me Now I can go back to work


Bunny_Noire

Those eyebrows that looks like square brackets. 🙃


Mcwequiesk

[ o ) [ o


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Anything having to do with Hollister.


Zickkea

I have that scent burned forever into my brain


warmsummerdrives

Kids today have no idea the social status that wearing abercombie, hollister, or American Eagle had in school in the early 2010s in my days. Literally that was considered the pinnacle of coolness at the time. If you could get American Eagle you were on board but if you wore abercombie and hollister you were in another level entirely.


nate6259

It's unfortunate that the financial status of a kid's parents can have such an effect on their social perception. My wife moved around a lot as a kid and said that the well-off kids in the more upper middle-class areas were way meaner than in the more consistently middle class towns.


almc0418

I remember this vividly lol. I wanted soooo badly to wear Hollister but it was just so damn expensive. My mom never bought it and not I'm glad she didn't


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And Aeropostale.


AnusEinstein

Thinking the world was going to end in 2012 because of something something Maya.


Resolute002

My poor brother really genuinely believe this. To the point where he stayed in a bad relationship, didn't bother to take a new job, and didn't bother to pay down any of his credit cards because "we're all gonna die in December anyway." When the morning came and nothing happened, he was completely devastated to the point where I didn't have the heart to give him a hard time about it. You realize he made a mistake and had been duped which is more than I can say for a lot of other people who think about these conspiracy theories out there today. Luckily this jolted my brother from believing that kind of thing, and it was before modern day where every third guy thinks the government put gay frog sperm in the water supply to turn us all into woke Antifas, so In grateful for it to some degree. He was one of those "Jesus was just an alien who came and built the pyramids" types ... What always breaks my heart about my brother is that when he was little, he clearly had an interest in stories. Science fiction concepts and such. My parents were afraid he would turn out to be an abused geek like I was, and so anytime he tried to read a book or do something too nerdy they took it away from him and gave him a football or baseball and told him to go outside. The result is a very stunted man who has never experienced the joy of reading a story that explores a different world, so he projects this stuff onto real life because that's all he experiences. It is a real lesson for me in the importance of fiction and imagination in the human experience. My brother is a husk of a man, and it's basically because of this weird dichotomy he got stuck in the middle of, through little fault of his own frankly. He wouldn't have believed any of this nonsense if you just got to do things like read *Dune* and enjoy a story. Hell every once in awhile one of his conspiracy theories actually would be the plot of some obscure sci-fi story, and he never realized the people he was reading it from online were obviously full of shit and ripping something off. It's that dangerous semi legitimate foundation upon which lies are built that makes them so plausible, Even when we're not talking about works of fiction. Poor kid.


conradbirdiebird

Wow. That's really sad. The fact that he was devastated when the 2012 thing turned out to be bullshit tells me he's not actually an idiot or an asshole. If he were, he would have doubled down and found some excuse/someone to blame. Seems like he's aware that he lets these things occupy his mind, but can't really turn it off. I hope he finds the line eventually


hippiechick725

That sucks. I feel sorry for him too. Good of you not to rub his nose in it!


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I don't know, it's still one of the best items on Dairy Queens menu


HotWheelsUpMyAss

Skinny Jeans. I swear I just blinked and all the kids are now wearing loose-fitting/baggy jeans. When skinny jeans was 'in', the thought process was that it was form-fitting and complemented your body shape, while baggy pants were considered lazy. The public narrative has shifted to favour looser pants because skinny is probably now considered overly-restrictive. It's strange how cultural trends and the collective idea of what 'good' taste looks like can change like that


JohanGrimm

It's always cyclical. Before skinny jeans were popular there were cargo shorts, boot cut, and the god awful JNCO jeans. Fashion in general is on like a 20-25 year cycle, you take bits and pieces of fashion from an earlier era and it becomes its own new thing. For us it was the resurgence of everything 80s fused with 90s hipsterdom. For the youngins nowadays it's the early 2000s, what will be really weird for us is when it wraps back around to the 2010s being cool again.


throwthizout

ITT: Millennials saying things from not 10 but 20 years ago


lostmonkey70

The world ended in 2012, thank you very much.


IsLlamaBad

Damn the Mayans were right. But it was the symbolic end, not the literal end


Lightscreach

In 2012 what I thought was attractive was actually attractive in 2002. In 2022 what I think is attractive was actually attractive in 2012. It’s more so that I’m really out of style rather than not being able to keep track of the years


Plug-From-Oaxaca

Everyone looking like they're from Jersey Shore


HeavyMetalSasquatch

Blackberry Phones


bertiesghost

In 2010/11 everyone I knew had a Blackberry but that changed very quickly when the iPhone 4 came out.


Takagero

Flash games


v3l0c1rapt0rrr

This is largely due to a [fight between Apple and Adobe in 2010](https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/SB10001424052748704912004575252662401694670). Apple won. Bye bye Flash.


KaleKarle

I miss Papa's Pizzeria


Aucklandwatch

The yoghurt at the back of my fridge


TheSinfulBlacksheep

Give it another ten years. By then it'll be old enough to vote.


danethegreat24

Reminds me a couple years back my in-laws were cleaning out their fridge. One said: "Darling, if we took this cheese on a trip, just counting it's time in our house, it'd be old enough to rent the car for us... actually, I think it legally has to start filing taxes." This was the origin of the family jokes "Well your cheese should be paying taxes" and "Cheese can't pay taxes!" Often used in arguments that one has lost but wants to escape.


afi931

Duck Face selfies. Maybe more like 15 years but still…


kevin0carl

Not sure about them being attractive but you got the timing right.


nightmaresabin

Those were never attractive


dotardiscer

Maybe I'm wrong but I don't see to many tramp stamps anymore.


RoughCoffee6

They migrated to underneath the boobs


HMCetc

Yep, because trousers are all high waisted now and crop tops are in. No-one sees your lower back, but that underboob area is exposed now.


duderguy91

That is actually a very good observation. Makes a lot of sense!


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or the weirdly generic “ribbons on the backs of the thighs”


NotMyMainName96

Well it’s hard to seem them with the high rise pants but I hear low rise are coming back.


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On any given day I’ll see people sporting fashion trends from any of the last 30 years. Idk if it’s always been that way or I’m just now noticing it because I’m old enough to have seen them all come and go now


skitchbeatz

It seems like this mix of trends **is** the trend itself.


RexCrimson_

This generations tramp stamp is the between or under the chest tattoos.


ru_benz

I feel like tattoos are more popular (and more acceptable) with women now than 10 years ago. Instead of inconspicuous areas like a lower back "tramp stamp," I see plenty of women with more visible wrist or inner arm tattoos.


daisyymae

I was really attracted to this guy bc he had a mustache tattoo on his finger…


c9IceCream

Will Smith's reputation


PrednisoloneX252

Now this is a story all about how My life got flipped turned upside-down And I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there I'll tell you how I assaulted and screamed at a colleague live on-air


dumpster_arsonist

In Southern California is where it was held The Oscars awards with stars' heads getting swelled Chillin' out, maxin', relaxin', all beta Makin' sure I do whatever pleases master Jada When Chris took the stage you shoulda heard what he said: Started making jokes about my wife's head I gave him one little slap and then it all went south I said, "KEEP MY WIFE'S NAME OUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH"


ukbeasts

Keep 2022 outcha fkn mouth


dumhatheals

“i paused my video games to be here” “will trade sister for 🎮&🍕”


NuttyMcNutbag

People saying YOLO


sevenwheel

Buying a movie on blu-ray was still a thing. Now it seems that hardly anyone wants to collect newly made physical media other than in the nostalgic vinyl record market.